A Brief History On September 22, 2017, the new horror film Friend Request opens in theaters across the U.S. Having previously shown in Germany (where the movie was filmed), the film was made with an English speaking cast speaking English. Apropos to this era of internet and cell phone addiction, the horror aspect of the movie is readily related to by modern audiences. Digging Deeper Friend Request is supposed to be scary. Is it? YES! So scary an adult woman got up and left saying she was too scared to continue watching and people could call her a “chicken” but…
Browsing: September 22
A Brief History On September 22, 1692, eight women went on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft, an event we used as motivation for our article, “10 More Things History Got Wrong About Women (Part 2).” Today we will use this historic attack against women to speak highly about the 10 women that lived in the 20th or 21st Century that we personally find to be the most beautiful, most delectable, sexiest, most attractive, prettiest, and most desirable of all. The lack of quality photography prior to the 20th Century is what limits our list to modern times. We are…
A Brief History In previous articles we discussed the myth that police in America are somehow gunning down innocent black males for no apparent reason. In Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 16, an unarmed black man, 40 year old Terrence Crutcher, was shot and killed by a white female police officer. Crutcher would not obey police orders to stop and get on the ground, but instead walked with his hands up to his car, despite being told not to approach the car. When he got to the car, his hands came down and it is unclear if he tried to reach…
A Brief History On September 22, 1979, a huge, unidentified double flash of light was seen by a US reconnaissance satellite near the Prince Edward Islands near Antarctica. Known as the “Vela Incident” because of the satellite’s name, Vela Hotel, not much is publicly known about the incident, as the US government has kept much of the information secret. Digging Deeper The origin of the mysterious flash has been speculated to be a nuclear test kept secret from the rest of the world, perhaps by Israel and or South Africa, possibly a joint venture by those two nations. Other explanations…
A Brief History Today, we celebrate the founding of History and Headlines on September 22, 2013. We now have over 200 articles on our site and so what better way to commemorate these milestones than by digging deeper into the bizarre and sordid history of the leader of a nuclear armed nation possessing more territory than any other country in the world? (Update, March 2020: We are now 6 1/2 years old and have well over 2000 articles, as well as a YouTube channel. We have also just added more information about Putin to this article and you can see…